2010-2011 Year: Daily lesson plans Week of 10/18/10 Day 2 CP English
Homework due: vocabulary quiz
Activities: Finish discussing short stories (micro fiction)
Homework: finish What is the What AP English
Homework due: finish chapter 5
Activities: Discuss chapter 5. Begin chapter 6 after reading several passages aloud (of chapter 5).
Homework: first half of chapter 6
Day 1 CP English
Homework due: vocabulary quiz
Activities: present micro fiction stories. Whole class question and answer- oral practice.
Homework: none
AP English
Homework due: vocabulary quiz moved to Tuesday. finish chapter 5
Activities: discuss the end of 4 and discuss chapter 5 of volcano
Homework: read chapter 6 of volcano
Week of 10/10/10
Day 3
CP English
Homework due: none
Activities: each chose a story to present to the class. Whole class discussion
Homework: finish chapter 24 of What is the What
AP English
Homework due: first half of chapter 4 of volcano
Activities: Open class discussions of the major themes and conflicts. Each student chooses a particularly well written passage and explains the merits.
Homework: Homework: Finish chapter 4
Day 2
CP English
Homework due: SP journal and finish chapter 23 of What is the What
Activities: finish first five micro fiction stories. Begin second Five
Homework: Read chapter 24 of What
AP English
Homework due: chaters 2 and 3 of Volcano
Activities: groups work with themes and motifs for 30 minutes. Form and function. Present to the class. 10 minutes journal response
Homework: chapter 4 of Volcano
_ Day 1
CP English
Homework due: turn in What is the What essay
Activities: Begin micro fiction. Start with the first couple of stories. Open class discussion of major literary techniques employed. Form and function.
Homework: none
AP English
Homework due: vocabulary quiz and give points for finishing chapter 1 of Vocano
Activities: discuss archetypes and other elements of style. 10 minutes reading response. Discuss their most effective sentences and why. Begin chapter 2
Homework: read chapter 2 of Volcano Week of 10/1/10
Day 1
CP English
Homework due: chapter 22
Activities: work on essay draft. View "Sliding Liberia."
Homework: chapter 23
AP English
Homework due: chapters 9 and 10 of Grendel
Activities: discuss the two chapters. Religion...Ork's theory of faith and reason. Work on grammar and sentence types with their essays.Peer and self revision.
Homework: chapters 11 and 12 and work on essay revision.
Day 4
CP English
Homework due: rough draft of paper
Activities:revision
Homework: two page typed (double space) final
AP English
Homework due:first 25 pages of Under the Volcano
Activities: Discuss archetypes, style, allusions, and stylistic chioce of begininning a year after the death of the consul.
Homework: finish first chapter of the novel
Day 1
CP English Homework Due: summer assignment Activities: quick review of what we will do this year. Run through the website. Form and function writing sample with micro-fiction. Check out first novel on thursday. What is the What Homework: none
AP English Lit Homework due: partial summer assignment Activities: run through website. Check out curriculum stuff. Discussion of Metamorphosis. Homework: finish summer assignments
Day 2
CP English
Homework due: none
Activities: introduce What is the What. Utube clips. NY times article. Read preface
Homework: finish article
AP Lit
Homework due: none
Activities: in class times essay #1- "Century Quilt"
Homework: none
Day 3
CP English
Homework due: NY times article
Activities: Check out novel. Read for the rest of the period
Homework: Read through chapter 3
AP Lit
Homework Due: none
Activities: check out Lolita. Review timed essays
Homework: Read first 10 chapters of Lolita
Day 4
CP English
Homework due: reading log of chapters 1-3
Activities: read and respond to chapter 5 and 6
Homework: chapter 6 and 7
AP Lit
Homework due: quiz on first few chapters of Lolita
Activities: continue with pilot paers and stylistic techniques
Homework: chapters 11-16 of Lolita
Day 1
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: Library work- SP revision
Homework: work on SP
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Finish up the Modernism analysis. Begin practice exam
Homework: none
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: Library for SP work
Homework: work on SP
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Finish practice exam and review answers. Begin compiling study guide for the exam.
Homework: finish study guide for the exam
Week 32 April 19-23
Practice AP Lit and Comp exam Thursday, April 22 from 2:30 to 5:30. This is not mandatory.
AP
Homework Due: analysis of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" and Sigfried Sasson's "They"
Activities: quick quiz on homework poems. Finish Eliot poem. discuss poems above
Homework:
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish oral activity- 5 minutes. Work on revising all SP written material
Homework: bring revised SP stuff to class
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish WW 1 poets. Assign poems to pairs for them to analyze and present.
Homework: read analysis of poem you will present
Day 3
CP
Homework due: bringing all SP written material for editing
Activities: Edit and work on SP intro, 3 goal, and essay. Plan approach to oral component.
Homework: revise written work
AP
Homework due: poems analyzed and ready to present to the class
Activities: Poem presentations
Homework: Analyze contemporary poems (list of the given in class)
Day 4
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: work with SP stuff
Homework: work on senior projects
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Finish presenting poems. Move to contemporary poems. Each choose one to analyze and present.
Homework: none
Homework due: reflection on practice book material
Activities: Discuss "Dover Beach"
Homework: tenets of modernism and read Eliot poem
Day 2 and 3
ERB testing
Day 4
CP
Homework due: typed stories
Activities: Oral question and answer about the elements of their stories
Homework: work on senior project
AP
Homework due: quiz on Eliot poem
Activities: begin discussing Poem
Homework: Auden poems
Week 30 March 22-26
Day 1
CP
Homework due: final ind. novel essay- g and m error free
Activities: work on stories
Homework: make sure all entries in notebook are up to date. They will be due mid week.
AP
Homework due: Byron or Shelly poem analyzed
Activities: individuals will teach the poem he/she brought in.
Homework: Tenets of Victorian period
Day 2
CP
Homework due: novel essay- g and m error free. Short story draft 1
Activities: read several micro-fiction pieces as examples of varying stylistic choices. Work on 1st draft of story. Peer editing.
Homework: revise draft 1 of story
AP
Homework due: tenets of the Victorian Period.
Activities: finish presenting ind. Romantic pieces. Discuss tenets. Begin Browning.
Homework: Read and analyze Tennyson's "Ulysses"
Day 3
CP
Homework due: 2nd revision of story due
Activities: editing handout. Peer editing.
Homework: finish thier story over the break and work on thier SP essay.
AP
Homework due: read and analyze Tennyson poem if you were unable to do so yesterday
Activities: Discuss tenets. Discuss Tennyson poem. Analyze and discuss Browning poem.
Homework over the break: AP practice book.
Have a great 2 weeks!
Week 29 March 16-19
Day 1
CP
Homework due: SP journal
Activities: finish work with "The Half-Skinned Steer." Discuss. Begin "A Good Man..."
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: analysis of 3 Keats poems for points
Activities: Begin with "La Belle..." Discuss motifs and tenets presented. Move to the two odes. Two class periods will be devoted to these poems.
Homework: "Ode to a Skylark." Read and Analyze
Day 2
CP
Homework due: pts for finished story
Activities: quiz on story. Writing activity: comment on the following- significance of Red Sammy, Grandmother's beliefs, and Misfit's philosophy. What makes a good short story? begin outlining thier own. This will not only be a writing activity, but the base for another oral presentation.
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Read and analyze "Grecian Urn" and Compare with Yeats's "Sailing..." Read and analyze "Skylark." Have pairs present.
Homework: Byron and Shelly poems
Week 28 March 8-12
Day 1
AP
Homework due: multiple choice questions for Ren poem. 5 of them
Activities: Go over practice test done on friday. Have another answer a peer's mc questions.
Homework: practice test section # 3
CP
Homework due: Bring another short story that you like
Activities: Discuss and do a writing activity on TTC. Read another's short story and identify author's tone.
Homework: finish story
Day 2
AP
Homework due: quiz on tenets of Romanticism.
Activities: Finish practice exam and discuss answers. Begin with Blake poems.
Homework:
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: Finish TTC work. Discuss. Begin Proux story. Work with the story they brought.
Homework: none
Day 3
Homework due: finished ind. story analysis
Activities: Read "The Half-Skinned Steer" and work with themes (memory, sexual orientation, journies, mortality, and insanity) setting, flashback, imagery, foreshadowing, and characterization. We will be spending three full class periods on this story. A close read is imperative.
Homework: sp journal for friday
Day 4
CP
Homework due: sp journal
Activities: Work with "Half-Skinned Steer"
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: read selected works of Romantic poets. Colderidge poem and Wordsworth sonnet.
Activities: Continue with the Romantics
HW: Timed practice essay
Week 27 March 1-5
Day 1
CP
homework due: 3 analytical questions about another's story
Activities: read "Gold Coast."
Homework: finish 7 questions
AP
Homework: none
Activities: go over two sets of practice questions and read Herbert's "The Pulley"
Homework: none
Day 2
CP
Homework due: 7 questions from short story
Activities: Discuss the questions from "Gold Coast." Begin the next story: "The Things they Carried."
Homework: finish writing activity in notebooks
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Finish discussing "The Pulley." Work briefly with the Ren. poem they brought. Use MOMENT while analyzing another. compose a couple of strong multiple choice questions for each poem. Characteristic of the Restoration and the 18th Century. Read and analyze Johnson, Pope, and Blake. Go over tenets of Neoclassical period.
Day 3
CP
Homework due: 7 aspects of "goal coast" for pts
Activities: Discuss questions. Read "the things they carried" and discuss the following as we read: parallel structure, transition, tangible vs. intangible, for and function, repetition, characterization, cataloguing, etc.
Homework: vocabulary
AP
Homework due: none
Actvities: finish the Johnson. 3 practice sections of Neoclassic poets. Begin Blake.
Homework: Find the tenets of Romanticism and be prepared to present them to the class.
Week 26 February 22nd- 26th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: typed draft of ind. novel essay
Activities: Begin short story unit. Begin with "Cathedral." Read in class. begin discussion of style and motifs.
Homework: SP editing of goils and essay
AP
Homework due: MOMENT with "To His Coy Mistress."
Activities: discuss homework in relation to the heuristic. Practice test section. Complete and discuss answers.Hand back marked essays.
Homework: revise and type final (3rd draft) Jazz essay. Due in two classes. this will be the final polished essay. The rest will be in class timed practice essays.
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish reading "Cathedral." Discuss in relation to the following: 1. what kind of story is it? (realism, naturalism, fantasy, "sick world," economic extremes) 2. Who is the speaker? 3. What are the facts? 4. What represents something more? 5. Author's purpose 6. Author's views of characters 7. Philosophical questions addressed. Best American Short Stories of the Century- class set
Homework: Bring in a copy of their favorite short story by Wednesday
AP
Homework: none
Activities: was not able to get done with the practice test. Take and discuss the prctice test. Start the second. Go over a couple of the Elements of poetry handouts.
Homework: Typed final of Jazz due tomorrow
Day 3
CP
Homework: none
Activities: Read Gold Coast. Apply 7 elements.
Homework: finish classwork if you were unable to do so. Bring favorite short story next class
AP
Homework due: Jazz essay due
Activities: Poetry practice sections. Go over answers and identify patterns. analyze Herbert's "The Pulley" Generate multiple choice questions in relation to the poem.
Homework: find and bring a Ren. poem that you like. Make sure you more or less know what is going on in the poem
Day 4
CP
Homework due: check for bringing short story
Activities: generate 3 analytical short answer questions relatied to the short story you brought. Read another's story and answer the questions related to it,
homework: none
AP
Homework due: Ren. poem
Activities: In class timed essay (poetry). turn in at the end of the period
Homework: none
Week 24 February 15th-19th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: novel should be finished
Activities: Finish oral presentations
Homework: Choose a topic for their essay and compose an outline
AP
Homework due: Jazz draft #1
Activities: finish the sonnet analysis. Compose a sonnet
Homework: finish sonnet
Day 2
CP
Homework due: Prompt for ind novel study essay
Activities: Make an outline. Begin drafting essay.
Homework: none. The essay will be written in class
AP
Homework due: completed sonnet. Ren. reading
Activities: Discuss tenets of the Ren. Donne's "The Sun Rising," "A Valediction," and "The Flea." Discuss Metaphysical conceit
Homework: revise essays
Day 3
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: Continue working on essays.
Homework: Contact S.P. mentor by Friday
AP
Homework due: revised Jazz essay
Activities: Continue Metaphysical poetry. Move on to Marvell
Homework: read "a passionate Shepherd to His Love" and "The Nymph's Reply"
Day 4
CP
Homework due: rough draft of ind. novel
Activities: Revise and peer edit. Alternation of sentence types, strong word choice, and grammar and mechanics error free.
Homework: final due for Monday- g and m error free
AP
Homework due: quiz on poetic devices examined so far
Activities: quiz. Discuss carpe diem. Apply MOMENT to Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"
Homework:
Week 23 February 9th-12th
Day 1
CP Homework due: Ind novel work Activities: Read novels and jot down the events that you read. Turn in. Most of the week will be devoted to reading. Homework: SP journal due at the end of the week. they must contact their SP mentor before the end of next week Their ind novel is due at the end of the week.
AP Homework due: chapter 7 and 8 of Jazz for pts Activities: Discuss their reading responses. Catalogue archetypes Morrison employs in the work and analyze its effect on the work as a whole. Read. Homework: finish the novel. We will begin an essay next class. Then to poetry and tenets of periods.
Day 2
CP Homework due: none Activities: Examine the following in your novel: 1. Character mnemonics, 2. What is special about who tells the story and why is it told that way. 3. The significance of chapter breaks. 4. Is there Allegory? 5. Specific style? 6. Is there Metafiction? What purpose does it serve? 7. Does the story sound in any way autobiographical? 8. Intertexuality? 9. What kind of philosophy exists in the book? life questions. 10. Is there history in the novel? 11. How closely do you connect with the novel? Homework: sp journal due this Friday. Contacting SP mentor by next Friday.
AP Homework due: final reading logs for Jazz Activities: discuss final two chapters- focus on the narrator's voice in the final. Ending? wrapped up? Begin Essay on the novel. Homework: compose a draft for Jazz essay
Day 3
AP Homework due: none Activities: Short explanations of the basic tenets of the Ren period. Explanation of characteristics of the sonnet. Analyze a sonnet. Compose one Homework: First draft of Jazz essay typed
CP Homework due: 5 out of ten novel aspects due as well as their SP journal Activities: oral activity: explain where you are on your senior project thus far. 3 minutes. Homework: finish your independent novel
Week 22 February 2nd-4th
(short week)
Day 1
CP
Homework due: ind novel progress
Activities: hand back marked SP drafts. 20 minutes of work editing and identifying errors. Salinger story in class. New York Times article about Salinger. Discuss.
Homework: SP journal #5 to be turned in next class
AP
Homework due: Jazz 2-5 for pts. Must have a response for each to recieve full credit.
Activities: Salinger story, discussion, and article. Discuss chapters 2-5 of Jazz. Focus on Garden, youth and old age, pain, memory, violence, racism, orphans, music, 2 Violets, narrative voice, and mothers.
Homework: read chapter 6 of Jazz
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish discussing "A Perfect Day Fo Bananafish." Work on independent novel Motifs and what they signify.
Homework: read independent novel
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: continue discussion of 2-5. Begin chapter 6 as a whole class
Homework: finish chapter 6 (Golden Grey chapter)
Day 3
CP
Homework due: page discussion of motifs in their ind. novel.
Activities: Discussion of yesterday's work. Spend the rest of the period reading.
Homework: Read ind. novel
AP
Homework due: chapter 6 of Jazz
Activities: quiz on chapter 6. Discuss the chapter. Begin cataloguing archetypes so far employed in the novel.
Homework: chapter 7
Week 21 January 18th-22nd
Day 1
CP
Homework due: more of ind. novel read
Activities: writing- character motivation. What are the inner and external motivations driving one or more of the characters in your novel. Turn in at the end of the period.
Homework: read ind. novel
AP
Homework due: rough draft of Death of a Salesman Essay
Activities: Edit and peer edit essays. Myth quiz
Homework: type up polished essay.
Day 2
CP
Homework: Read ind. novel
Activities: Work on S.P. essays. Strong word choice. Originality of voice. Varied sentence types. ETC
Homework: continue ind. novel
AP
Homework due: Death of a Salesman essay
Activities: discuss how each approached the work in their essay. Go and check out Jazz. Introduction to musical terms. Style in relation to music. Note where author's style compliments the music.
Homework: chapter one
Day 3
CP
Homework due: rough draft of S.P. essay
Activities: Work on essay rough drafts
Homework: read ind. novel
AP
Homework due: chapter one of Jazz
Activities: Discuss reading responses. Discuss narrative voice and attitute, mood, musicality, style, and motifs. Begin chapter 2. Respond as you read.
Homework: Read chapters 2-5 and respond over www.
Day 4
CP
Homework due: typed draft of SP essay
Activities: Hand in typed rough draft for pts. Read ind. novel.
Homework: read as much as you can of your ind. novel over WWW
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Read and discuss chapter 2
Homework: read through chapter 5 of Jazz over WWW
Week 20 January11th-15th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: hand back papers. Points for bringing their novels. Read ind. novel.
Homework:Bring evidence of progress on your SP
AP
Homework due: Act 1 of Death of a Salesman (pts)
Activities: discuss first act. Questions? Questions for discussion in relation to motifs, characterization, Family dynamics, identity questions, and style. Find evidence for various elements in the work. Aristotle's Tragedy. On Wednesday we will begin an essay. Read aloud time permitting.
Homework: finish first half of act 2.
Day 2
CP
Homework due: read ind. novel
Activities: Oral component. each student will spek for three minutes about the opening of their ind. novel. Why it appealed to them? What drew them in? Any of the 15 aspects we have focused on. Question and Answer.
Homework: Continue reading novel
AP
Homework due: first half of Act 2
Activities: Discuss the first half of this act. Read aloud and discuss the second part of act 2.
Homework: finish what we were unable to get done today
AP
Homework due: finish play
Activities: Dr. Hogan guest lecture on poetry
Homework: study for Greek myth quiz. Draft an essay on Death of a Salesman using the list of open ended prompts (1977-2005... choose a question that relates to the play overall.
Week 18 December 14th-18th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: Exam review
Homework: study for exam
AP
Homework due: collected works #3/finish Portrait
Actiities: Work on collected works #3. Discuss the final sections of Portrait. Quick exam explanation
Homewok: none
The rest of the week there will be exams
Week 17 December 7th-11th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: chapter 10 of Grendel
Activities: Discuss chapter 10. 7 dealy sins throughout work thus far- ire, sloth, greed, lust, gluttony, pride, envy (in class work to be complted in notebook).
Homework: Chapter 11
AP
Homework due: capter 4 of Portrait
Activities: discuss chapter 4- religious piety, part 2-evolution of artistic thought/ change in attitude.
Homework: finish chapter 4
For myth quiz on Friday: Apollo, Delphi, Echo, Narcissus, Sirens
Day 2
CP
Homework due: chapter 11 of Grendel
Activities: Finish 7 deadly sins stuff. Discuss. Questions about chapter 11. Begin final chapter as a whloe class iftime permits.
Homework: Finish chapter 12 and write a response.
AP
Homework due: 3rd part of chapter 4 of Portait
Activities: Examine on the following: motifs, poetic diction, syntax and punctuation, role of women, punctuation, his name, reaction t his friends and the religious figures, soul, epiphany, and the contrast with the first paragraph of next chapter.
Hmework: first two sections of chapter 5
Day 3
CP
Homework due: chapter 12 and response
Activities: Battle with Beowulf. Ambiguity of the end. Written response to the work as a whole.
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: part 1 of ch. 5
Activities: Have individuals lead class discussion of aesthetic theory as well as other aspect of this section- attitude toward university, friends, nationalism, et. tone of the section vs. previous ones. time permitting, begin reading the nxt section.
Homework: fiish the next section and study fo friday's vcab quiz.
Day 4
CP
Begin exam review. Bring notes on Grendel and anything you did with BNW.
AP
Homework due: draft of 4th collcted works piece
Activities: mythology quiz. work on collected works piece.
Homewok: finish Portrait.
Week 16 November 30-December 4th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: chapters 6 and 7 of Grendel
Activities: discuss each of the chapters
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: chapters 1 and 2 of Portrait
Activities: discuss chapters
Homework: none
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: hand back SP journals. Check for Grendel chapter 6 and 7 responses. Rad chapter 8 and respond to specific questions- on board.
HW: finish today's work
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish up discussion of chapter two of Portrait. Give them time to work on three in class.
Homework: finish chapter three.
Day 3
CP
Homework due: wpp typed essay (Dec. 3rd)
Activities: discuss ch. 8- Red horse chapter. Characterizations. Political theory. S.P. goal number three- in class work, time permitting.
Homework: Type in WPP essay
AP
Homework due: Portrait, ch. 3
Activities: discuss the chapter, assigning each kid a topic to explain
Homework: read and respond to ch. 9
Day 4
CP
Homework due: Grendel ch. 9
Activities: Explain Ork's theory of religion. discuss chapter as a whole class. Begin chapter 10.
Homework: finish chapter 10 over the weekend. Respond.
AP
Homework due: study for mythology quiz
Activities: Mythology quiz. Finish Portrait ch. 3. Begin chapter 4
Homework: Read first two sections of chapter 4
Week 15 November 23rd-25th (only 2 days this week due to Thanksgiving)
Day 1
CP
Homework due: SP journal #3
Activities: work in pairs with Ch. 5- Dragon chapter. Discuss if there is time.
Homework: finish chapter 5
AP
Homework due: ch. 1 part 1 of Portrait
Activities: Quick quiz. Discuss ch.1 part 1- motifs/symbols/patterns. Begin second part of chapter 1.
Homework: none
Day 2
CP
Homework due: Grendel chapter 5 and response
Activities: In class timed essay on Truth vs. Majority decision. This will be done in class and then typed into the WPP program on the Tuesday after thanksgiving. Do not lose it.
Homework: Read chapters 6 and 7 of Grendel over the break. You do not have to respond to each. You will do this when you come back.
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: in class timed practice essay (45 minutes). Continue reading and responding to Portrait- chapter 1 part 2.
Homework: Finish chapter 1 and respond. Read and respond to chapter 2. I will check to see that you have done this on the Monday following the break.
Week 14 November 17th-20th
Day 1
CP Homework due: reading chapter three of grendel Activities: quiz on chapter three. Whole class discussion of the chapter. Begin chapter 4, time permitting Homework: none
AP Homework due: finishing "Cathedral" pts for completion Activities: Discuss communion and epiphany in "Cathedral". Begin "The Garden Party" aloud stopping to identify patters, motifs, symbols, etc... Homework: finish story
Day 2
CP Homework due: none Activities: work on chapter 4. Shaper oral activity. Homework: Type the BNW essay in to wpp.
AP Homework due: "Garden Party" Activities: discuss "The Garden Party" give them a copy of Portrait.. and have them begin reading it. SSR Homework due: first 26 pages of novel
Day 3
CP Homework due: none Activities: discuss chapter 4. Oral activity (shaper) 1. explain a major figure/institution that affects or influences you. Why do you believe in this? Why are you doubtful? Homework: SP journal due (#3) on Monday
AP Homework due: studying for mythology quiz Activities: 10 question quiz: 5 mythological characters. Background on Portrait, and stream of consciousness SSR of Portrait Homework: read through page 27. ch. 1 part 1.
Week 13 November 9th- 14th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish discussing chapter 1. Begin reading chapter 2 and completing their responses.
AP
Homework due: "The Dead" pts
Activities: 20 minutes to finish up practice exam. Discuss "The Dead" or begin going over the answers to the practice exam..
Homework:
Day 2
CP
Homework due: work on BNW essay
Activities: finish chapter 2 of Grendel and the response. Discuss the chapter in relation to characterization, good versus evil, and identity
Homework: finish the chapter and make sure that they do the BNW essay
AP
Homework: make sure to have read "The Dead"
Activities: Go over all of the answers for the multiple choice practice test. Time permitting, begin discussing Joyce work.
Homework: look over the myths: Artemis, Charon, Dionysus, Persephone, Pygmalion
Day 3
CP
Homework due: BNW final- grammer and mechanics error free
Activities: Existentialist handout for 30 minutes. Turn it in. Discuss chapter 2.
Homework:none
AP
Homework due: "Sonny's Blues"
Activities: whole class discussion of "The Dead." Motifs, symbols, and patterns. social, political, and religious implications in the work. Begin "Sonny's Blues" if there is time.
Homework: none
Day 4
CP
Homework due: finish the existentialism handout.
Acitities: Show them how to register for WPP. discuss the handout and their responses. Begin chapter three of Grendel.
Homework: Register for WPP
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Walk them through the WPP registration. Finish discussing "The Dead." Discuss "Sonny's Blues"
Homework: study for the vocabulary quiz. Register for WPP. Read Carver's "Cathedral."
Day 5
CP
Homework due: signing up for WPP
Activities: Chapter thrr of Grendel and the reading response
Homework: finish chapter three and the response
AP
Homework due: register for WPP
Activities: Read "Cathedral" aloud discuss.
Homework: read "A Garden Party"
Week 12 November 2nd-6th
Day 1
CP
Homework Due: Pts for finishing the novel
Activities: Discuss the final chapter of BNW. Short written reflection/ reaction on the end. Whole class discussion. Turn in the novel. SP goal #3. Give them each a copy of Grendel and record numbers. By the middle of the month, they need to have contacted their SP mentor
Homework: Type up BNW essay
AP
Homework Due: "A&P" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" reading and responses
Activities: Discuss both stories in relation to form and function, experience, interpretation, and evaluation, and other questions (in written plans). read "The Cliff" and discuss as a whole class. Identity. Hand Back Papers. "Sonny's Blues" and "Where are you Going, where Have You Been." are the next two. We will do a Timed Multiple choice test this week.
Homework: "Where are you going, where have you been" Oates
Day 2
CP
Homework due: typed BNW essay
Activities: Read Chapter 1 of Grendel. Have them keep a reading log for each chapter. each will contain questions, favorite quotation explained, favorite idea, vocabulary, and a list of the main ideas (summary), a couple of themes, a couple of literary devices(quoted).
Homework: contact yuor mentor teacher by next friday. All you need to do is introduce yourself, your project, ask for any ideas they may have, and get a quick note with a signature from them.
AP
Homework due: "Where Are You Going, where Have You Been"
Activities: pts for homework- possible quiz. Read and Discuss "The Cliff." Multiple choice practice test.
Homework: Read Joyce's "The Dead" in the big black book
Day 3
CP
Homework due: work from Grendel chapter 1
Activities: have several volunteers explain their responses. whole class discussion, but directed at a couple of people who wish to defend their point. I will quickly explain a few of the finer points and dificult concepts. Explain Existentialism (handout). Give notes about the Heroic ideal and zodiac signs as well as the planets.
Homework: chapter 2 and a response
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Multiple choice practice test
Homework: read Joyce's "The Dead"
Week of August 17th
aug. 18
C.P.
Homework Due: s.p. proposals and article summaries
Activities: review course outline, materials and website. Discuss the proposals and summaries. Read non-fiction article and discuss author's purpose, tone and form and function. Do the same with the visual piece. Writing assignment- draft a short piece with a focus on tone.
Hw: finish tone draft and type for next class.
A.P.
Homework due: Kafka work.
Activities: review course outline, materials and website. Each presents one of his/her analysis. Whole class discussion. Analyze and discuss The Metamorphosis. Form and Function explanation/review and application to the work. Begin work on Prologue: The Forest. Hand out AP contract.
Hw: Finish Prologue: The Forest and write a one page analysis of the work with a focus on form and function- consider tone in relation to word choice. Bring AP contract signed.
Aug. 19th
A.P.
Homework due: AP contract for points. Analysis of yesterday's reading.
Activities: whole class discussion of Prologue. Read The Garden Party and analyze in relation to motifs and archetypes. I will give you examples of each. Class discussion.
Hw:
C.P.
Homework due: finish making corrections to summer assignments (if you got them back today)
Aug 20th
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: bookstore for Lit book and Grendel. Begin Grendel in class. read and discuss the first chapter.
Homework: read pages 2153-2193 in big black text. Billy the Kid work.
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish the Prologue and discuss using 15 traits of reading (from yesterday). hand back summer assignments and have them rewrite one in class. Turn in toward the end of the hour. Explain the personal essay (as the first major writing assignment as well as oral component). give them the list of possible prompts and the common application. explain that the end result will be acceptance= 100/ rejection=0.
Homework: none
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Week 2 August 24-28th
Day 1
CP English
due: none
Activities: explain college admissions (mock) essays and requirements. Give handouts of sample creative topics. Begin working on drafting their own.
Homework: 500 word rough draft of personal essay
Homework AP English
Homework due: Billy the Kid summer work. Critical analysis reading (40 pages)
Activities: quiz on the reading. Discuss the schools of lit criticism and how they apply to both the quiz and to the reading.
Homework: read ch. 2 of Grendel
Day 2
CP English
Homework due: 500 word rough draft of personal essay
Activities: work on essay as a whole class.
-strong word choice -sentence variation
-grammar and mechanics (self and peer)
-transition
-overall content
-same tense
-etc
Homework: final draft due on friday
AP English
Homework Due: chapter 2 of Grendel
Activities: hand back and discuss quizzes. discuss chapter 2 of grendel. Go over the twelve values that Gardnel employs (notes). Discuss in relation to the first 2 chapters. Implications on the rest of the work? How could Grendel be a picaresque hero?- essential question for the next few chapters. Nature of good and evil questions... how do they apply thus far?... especially with narrative voice. Read chater three as a class.
HW: chapter 3
Day 3
CP
homework due: 2nd draft of college essay
Activities: 2 minute oral presentation with whole class evaluation and feedback. Tell class about upcoming film unit and how it will look.
homework: none
AP
Homework due: chapter 3 reading response for pts.
Activities: discuss chapter three. 12 values according to Gardner (western civ.) and explain them. form and fuction activity. each student will have a different task and then discuss with the class. begin chapter 4
Homework: finish chapter 4 and respond (they will have to respond to each reading throughout the year. I will check for pts at ramdom each week)
Week 3- 8/31/09
Day 1
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: return mock college essays. discuss and give due date (friday 4th). Film unit intro: Millions. Take notes on the film while viewing. Topics for reflection will be the theme of Greed in relation to rligion, innocence vs. experience, illusion vs. reality, happiness, and right vs. wrong OR director's choice with scenes, cinemotography (camera angles), vivid use of color, music, etc., and how that effects the overall effect of the film.
Homework: have your notes with you so that you can add to them for the rest of the film
AP
Homework due: chapter 5 journal.
Activities: discuss chapter 5 and the philosophy of the dragon. Nihilism and relation to the novel. Begin a draft of their first essay- morally ambiguous character. Have them read Killings from the big black book to support what they argue.
HW: Dubois Killings and chapter 6 of Grendel
Day 2
CP
Homework due: college essays for revision
Activites: finish film and notes.
homework: polish up notes
AP
Homework due: journal on Killings
Activities: discuss Killings. Discuss chapter 6 of Grendel. Finish the draft of Grendel as a morally ambiguous character.
Homework: Chapter 7 of Grendel
Day 3
CP
Homework Due: notes on film and college essay
Activities: draft essay and peer edit
Homework: typed film draft
AP
Homework Due: chapter 7 journal
Activities: discuss chapter 7 of Grendel. 45 minute timed essay on morally ambiguous characters. After their essay, they must edit and include the following: Parallel construction, a question, at least two simple sentences, a fragment, an infinitive phrase, a gerund phrase, dependent clause, independent clause, and a deliberate fragment.
Homework: type up the essay for monday and read chapter 8.
Week 4 9/7/09- 9/11/09
Day 1
CP
homework due: film critique rough draft
Activities: self and peer editing. get vocab
homework: type up the edited draft. work on college essay second try
AP
homework due: Grendel essay draft
Activities: discuss chapter 8. edit essays. get vocab
Homework: read chapter 9
Day 2
CP
homework due: typed draft of film critique
activities: view film and take notes
homework: none
AP
homework due: chapter 9 journal entry
activities: discuss chapter 9. have them continue editing their essays. read chapter 10 aloud
homework: finish chapter 10
Day 3
CP
Homework due: confirmation that they spoke with their folks about their SP
Activities: finish film and notes. air them up and begin the 1 minute oral activity
Homework: mock college essay
AP
Homework due: chapter 9 of Grendel
Activities: discuss the chapter (10). Turn back essays and have them work on them in class. Begin chapter 10
Homework: finish chapter 10 and type up the final of Grendel draft
Day 4
CP
Homework due: organize questions to ask those during their 2 minute oral component
Activities: oral component. Question and answer.
homework: none
AP
Homework due: chapter 10. Final Grendel paper due
Activities: Discuss chapter 10. Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and discuss as we go as a whole class. form and function.
Homework: finish the novel (chapters 11 and 12)
Week of 9/13/09- 9/16/09
Day 1
CP
Homework due: SP journal #1. Mock college essays.
Activities: Finish the 2 minute oral presentation (filmed). Show them a few clips- from last year as well as the ones they just completed. Critique them using the rubrics.
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: finish "a Good Man is Hard to Find." Finish Grendel. Journal entry on one or both of them.
Activities: Discuss the end of the O'Conner Story. focus on motifs and archetypes and how each/all play a role in the author's purpose and the overall effect of the work. Finish discussing Grendel. Discuss their journals. Have them go and check out Heart of Darkness for Tuesday.
Homework: Read the first section of HOD
Day 2
CP
Homework Due: Journal for S.P. for their binders.
Activities: Give them the themes and quotation handout. From it they may choose a topic for their one page reflection of the film. Work on it in class. Variation of sentence types and strong word choice.
Homework: type a rough draft
AP
Homework due: bring The collected Works of Billy the Kid
Activities: Give notes on Billy the kid. Narration going its own way. Have each choose their three favorite scenes/pages from the novel. they will discuss the form, function, and purpose for each. they may use their summer assignment notes for this, but must return them. We will begin discussing them as a class.
Homework: finish today's assignment if they were not able to do so.
Day 3
CP
Homework due: typed rough copy of 2nd film critique
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Read the Tenenbaums article and respond to it: identify thesis, summarize the argument (strongest and weakest points), and give your opinion of it. Agree or disagree.
homework: none
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Read and discuss the Flannery O'conner article from the Atlantic. Continue with The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Use their papers from the summer assignments as springboards. Edit them for both style and content. Give them Heart of Darkness. Begin reading if there is time.
homework: take home and revise their summer Billy the Kid essays for revision.
Week 6 9/21-9/25
Day 1
CP
Homework due: aldaily article summary due. Film critique
Activities: hand back edited essays and film critique article. Begin viewing 3rd and final fil. Give them the technical terms handout to aid them in note taking during the viewing. 3 handouts total.
Homework: organize notes.
AP
Homework due: revised Billy the Kid analysis. Check to see if they read the O'conner and Kafka articles for pts.
Activities: Discuss the articles. Take up the essays. Begin HOD aloud in class. 15 minute reflection on style and setting as well as narrative point of view. SSR. 85 minute classes.
Homework: finish the first part of HOD
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish film. Go over all of the cinematography terms. Choose a topic about which to reflect. They will plan for 30 minutes (like the ERB) using one of the prompts on the second page of the handout. Next class they will have a timed in-class essay and may use their notes. Graded and scored using the ERB rubric.
Homework: they may do any prep work they want, but may not bring anything to class for the timed essay.
AP
Homework due: finish reading part 1 of HOD
Activities: whole class questions and discussion about the chapter. Share journals. Hand back essays on Billy the Kid. Everyone choose one archetype or motif and describe it with textual evidence. Share it- all of the possible meanings. SSR for the rest of the period.
Homework: finish the second part of HOD
Day 3
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: 60 minute writing response to the film. They may use only their pre writing and the ideas they bring. 5 minute break. Graded using the ERB rubric. Give them a copy of BNW and have them read the first chapter. They will keep a brief writing response for each chapter.
Hw: finish chapter 1 of BNW
AP
Homework due: check for part 2 of HOD
Activities: Vocabulary quiz. Open class discussion of part two. Motifs and archetypes. Questions for discussion (in notebooks).
HW: finish the novel.
Week 7 9/28-10/1
Day 1
CP
Homework: study for the vocabulary quiz
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Hand back all papers. Remember those 15 points when reading the opening of a novel or a story? Apply them to the first few pages of BNW. Discuss them if there is time.
Hw: finish the 15 points
AP
Homework due: part 3 of HOD
Activities: in class writing on free response question using HOD.
Homework: read "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
Day 2
CP
Homework due: chapter 1 of BNW
Activities: discuss the elements they found on the first couple of pages. Discuss the first chapter. Give them Article on Utopia/dystopia. Read article. Discuss. Begin reading chapter 2.
Homework: finish chapter 2
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Discuss part 3 of HOD. Discuss in class timed essays. Begin reading "The short Happy Life..." Discuss Hemingway's style.
Homework: Finish story. Return HOD
Day 3
CP
Homework due: ch. 2 and 3 of BNW
Activities: quick quiz (15 minutes). Discuss as a whole class. Read chapter 4
Homework: Finish chapter 4 for homework and do a senior project journal for Friday
AP
Homework due: "Short Happy Life..."
Activities: Discuss Hem. story. Read "Barn Burning" as a class. Compare the styles- syntax and diction. At least 5 sentence comparisons from each story. Discuss with the class.
Homework: Read first chapter in The Things They Carried (new unit)
Day 4
AP
Homework due: journal of chapter one of TTC
Activities: Discuss story. Binaries and strands in the first story. Essential questions as related to the opening. Why does O'Brien open the novel with this story? Begin second story as a class.
Homework: Read first story
Week 8 10/5-10/9
Day 1
CP
Homework due: chapter 4 BNW
Activities: discuss ch. 4. SSR of ch. 5 while I check SP journal #2
Homework: finish questions and chapter 5
Day 2
CP
Homework due: questions and chapter 5
Activities: discuss questions. Discuss chapter 5. Begin working on the first goal of their SP. Strong word choice, vary sentence types, and grammar and mechanics focus.
Homework: finish first goal
AP
Homework due: Discuss first story of TTC. Binaries and strands. Style. Form and function. read second story aloud. Why would this story be first? What is the overall effect? Discuss each of the essential questions. We will choose one of the passages from the third story for a timed essay next class. Author's tone in relation to literary techniques on page 37.
HW: Read the third chapter.
Day 3
CP
Homework due: typed sp goal #1 and chapter 6 of BNW
Activities: Quick quiz on chapter 6. Discuss the chapter. Edit their SP preliminary journal #1. explain to the class how they plan on accomplishing thier goal. Another person will explain a peer's work.
Project
Thesis (goal)
Steps to accomplishment of the goal
Try and find an article on governmental control.
AP
Homework Due: "Spin"
Activities: Timed in class essay on the passage in "Spin". Whole class evaluation of the work using the generic rubric. Begin reading "On the Rainy River."
HW: finish story
Day 4
CP
Homework due: chapter 7
Activities: Discuss chapter 7. SSR of chapter 8.
Homework: finish chapter 8 and read chapter 9 over the long break. Oral component on tuesday.
AP
Homework due: finished "On the Rainy River"
Activities: one class is behind and needs to do the timed essay (period 2). passage form "How To Tell A True War Story."
Period six will peer grade one another's timed essays. Discuss. Discuss "On the Rainy River" Time permitting, they may start their Homework.
Homework: Read "How To Tell A True War Story" and a journal.
Week 9 10/13-10/16
Day 1
CP
Homework due: chapters 8 and 9 of BNW
Activities: quiz on 8 and 9. Discuss chapters. Write SP intro and edit. 100-200 words
HW: type SP goal
AP
Homework due: "Friends," "Enemies," and "How to Tell a True War Story."
Activities: Timed in class essay for 2nd period. Peer grade. Discuss stories as a whole class. 6th period: peer grade essays. Discuss stories.
Homework: Read "The Man I Killed"
Day 2
CP
Homework due: chapter 10
Activities: Discuss chapter 10. Choose a quotation from the 100 Huxley quotations. Plan for a 3 minute oral presentation. Explain the quotation, its relation to BNW if relevant, and on a broader scale. 15 minutes to draw up an outline and think out a strategy for the presentation.
Homework: chapter 11 of BNW
AP
Homework due:"The Dentist" and "Sweetheart..."
Activities: Discuss the above 2 stories. Compose a list of strong descriptive and analytical words in notebooks to start using on in class essays. Turn back essays. Take individual sentences and rewrite them using stronger word choice and varied syntax. Share with class. SSR of next couple of stories
HW:
Day 4
CP
Homework due: study for vocab quiz
Activities: Vocabulary quiz. Continue oral presentation #3.
Homework: read chapters 11 and 12
AP
Homework due: study for vocabulary quiz
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Strengthen essays with wordlists given on thursday.
Homework: type up revised essays
Week 10 10/19-10/23
Day 1
CP
Homework due: read 11 and 12. Check for pts.
Activities: Finish filming. Just a few to go. Whole class discussion of chapters 10-12. Written exercise: short foreshadowing explanation.
HW: read chapter 13
AP
Homework due: turn in essays
Activities: Discuss three stories as a whole class. Choose best sentences for each and be prepared to explain why. Discuss. Begin "Ambush" aloud.
Homework: read the next story
Day 2
CP
Homework: Chapter 13
Activities: Discussion of chapter 13. Short foreshadowing activity (was not able to get it done on Mon.: Texual hints as to what will become of each character written on the board. Turn in. SSR of chapter 14.
Homework: finish chapter 14
AP
Homework due: TTC essay
Activities: Discuss Ambush, Style, and Speaking of Courage, apply the identity questions and figure out the title of the last two. With the last one have them try and figure out what is going on stylistically and why this story is so drastically different from the others so far. Why is O'Brien telling the story from Bowker's point of view? discuss. Then read "Notes" as a whole class.
homework: Finish Notes and read In the Field and Good Form.
Day 3
CP
Homework due: chapters 14 and 15 of BNW
Activities: Discuss the two chapters- answer any questions as a whole class. Write SP goal 2. Edit. Alternate sentence types (use the handouts for help determining the three basic types). On the back, list the adjectives and adverbs used.
Homework: typed goal #2 for next class
AP
Homework due: In the Field and Good Form
Activities: Hand back the essays. 45 minutes pair work- work with awk/wordy/? sentences and usage problems on another sheet of paper. Turn it in. Discuss In the Field and Good Form. Apply Identity quesitons. Truth vs. Illusion... and the truth about the novel. Fiction or non-fiction? Where are the clues?
Homework: read Field Trip and Ghost Soldiers
Week 11 October 26th-30th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: Typed SP goal # 2
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Read chapter 16 as a whole class and discuss.
Homework: read chapter 17
AP
Homework Due: Field Trip and Ghost Soldiers. Brining collected works piece #1
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Work on the first collected works piece, both the form and the function.
Homework: finish the novel.
Day 2
CP
Homework due: ch. 16 and 17 of BNW
Activities: explain writing task- choose one concept Mustapha Mond explains and elaborate on it, not only in the novel, but in regard to human nature. Begin writing. Strong word choice, and sentence variation.
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: last two stories of the novel finished (for pts with reading log).
Activities: discuss the last 4 chapters of the novel. Timed essay. Identity prompt.
Homework: none
Day 3
CP
Homework due: rough draft of Mond's social, religious, or philosophical ideas.
Activities: start with another sheet of paper and edit sentence by sentence- sentence type variation, grammar and mechanics, strong adjectives and adverbs.
Homework: type draft for next class and I will check it using the "x" system.
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: discuss last chapters of the novel. Go to the bookstore and return books. Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Gillman. Apply Identity questions. Whole class reading and discussion of style and purpose.
Homework: Read "A&P" by Updike
Week of 10/18/10
Day 2
CP English
Homework due: vocabulary quiz
Activities: Finish discussing short stories (micro fiction)
Homework: finish What is the What
AP English
Homework due: finish chapter 5
Activities: Discuss chapter 5. Begin chapter 6 after reading several passages aloud (of chapter 5).
Homework: first half of chapter 6
Day 1
CP English
Homework due: vocabulary quiz
Activities: present micro fiction stories. Whole class question and answer- oral practice.
Homework: none
AP English
Homework due: vocabulary quiz moved to Tuesday. finish chapter 5
Activities: discuss the end of 4 and discuss chapter 5 of volcano
Homework: read chapter 6 of volcano
Week of 10/10/10
Day 3
CP English
Homework due: none
Activities: each chose a story to present to the class. Whole class discussion
Homework: finish chapter 24 of What is the What
AP English
Homework due: first half of chapter 4 of volcano
Activities: Open class discussions of the major themes and conflicts. Each student chooses a particularly well written passage and explains the merits.
Homework: Homework: Finish chapter 4
Day 2
CP English
Homework due: SP journal and finish chapter 23 of What is the What
Activities: finish first five micro fiction stories. Begin second Five
Homework: Read chapter 24 of What
AP English
Homework due: chaters 2 and 3 of Volcano
Activities: groups work with themes and motifs for 30 minutes. Form and function. Present to the class. 10 minutes journal response
Homework: chapter 4 of Volcano
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Day 1
CP English
Homework due: turn in What is the What essay
Activities: Begin micro fiction. Start with the first couple of stories. Open class discussion of major literary techniques employed. Form and function.
Homework: none
AP English
Homework due: vocabulary quiz and give points for finishing chapter 1 of Vocano
Activities: discuss archetypes and other elements of style. 10 minutes reading response. Discuss their most effective sentences and why. Begin chapter 2
Homework: read chapter 2 of Volcano
Week of 10/1/10
Day 1
CP English
Homework due: chapter 22
Activities: work on essay draft. View "Sliding Liberia."
Homework: chapter 23
AP English
Homework due: chapters 9 and 10 of Grendel
Activities: discuss the two chapters. Religion...Ork's theory of faith and reason. Work on grammar and sentence types with their essays.Peer and self revision.
Homework: chapters 11 and 12 and work on essay revision.
Day 4
CP English
Homework due: rough draft of paper
Activities:revision
Homework: two page typed (double space) final
AP English
Homework due:first 25 pages of Under the Volcano
Activities: Discuss archetypes, style, allusions, and stylistic chioce of begininning a year after the death of the consul.
Homework: finish first chapter of the novel
Day 1
CP English
Homework Due: summer assignment
Activities: quick review of what we will do this year. Run through the website. Form and function writing sample with micro-fiction. Check out first novel on thursday. What is the What
Homework: none
AP English Lit
Homework due: partial summer assignment
Activities: run through website. Check out curriculum stuff. Discussion of Metamorphosis.
Homework: finish summer assignments
Day 2
CP English
Homework due: none
Activities: introduce What is the What. Utube clips. NY times article. Read preface
Homework: finish article
AP Lit
Homework due: none
Activities: in class times essay #1- "Century Quilt"
Homework: none
Day 3
CP English
Homework due: NY times article
Activities: Check out novel. Read for the rest of the period
Homework: Read through chapter 3
AP Lit
Homework Due: none
Activities: check out Lolita. Review timed essays
Homework: Read first 10 chapters of Lolita
Day 4
CP English
Homework due: reading log of chapters 1-3
Activities: read and respond to chapter 5 and 6
Homework: chapter 6 and 7
AP Lit
Homework due: quiz on first few chapters of Lolita
Activities: continue with pilot paers and stylistic techniques
Homework: chapters 11-16 of Lolita
Day 1
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: Library work- SP revision
Homework: work on SP
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Finish up the Modernism analysis. Begin practice exam
Homework: none
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: Library for SP work
Homework: work on SP
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Finish practice exam and review answers. Begin compiling study guide for the exam.
Homework: finish study guide for the exam
Week 32 April 19-23
Day 1
CP
Homework due: S.P. Journal
Activities: continue oral proficiency activity
Homework: none
AP
Homework Due: analysis of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" and Sigfried Sasson's "They"
Activities: quick quiz on homework poems. Finish Eliot poem. discuss poems above
Homework:
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish oral activity- 5 minutes. Work on revising all SP written material
Homework: bring revised SP stuff to class
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish WW 1 poets. Assign poems to pairs for them to analyze and present.
Homework: read analysis of poem you will present
Day 3
CP
Homework due: bringing all SP written material for editing
Activities: Edit and work on SP intro, 3 goal, and essay. Plan approach to oral component.
Homework: revise written work
AP
Homework due: poems analyzed and ready to present to the class
Activities: Poem presentations
Homework: Analyze contemporary poems (list of the given in class)
Day 4
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: work with SP stuff
Homework: work on senior projects
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Finish presenting poems. Move to contemporary poems. Each choose one to analyze and present.
Homework: none
Week 31 April 12-16
Day 1
CP
Homework due: SP essay rough draft.
Activities: edit essays and stories
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: reflection on practice book material
Activities: Discuss "Dover Beach"
Homework: tenets of modernism and read Eliot poem
Day 2 and 3
ERB testing
Day 4
CP
Homework due: typed stories
Activities: Oral question and answer about the elements of their stories
Homework: work on senior project
AP
Homework due: quiz on Eliot poem
Activities: begin discussing Poem
Homework: Auden poems
Week 30 March 22-26
Day 1
CP
Homework due: final ind. novel essay- g and m error free
Activities: work on stories
Homework: make sure all entries in notebook are up to date. They will be due mid week.
AP
Homework due: Byron or Shelly poem analyzed
Activities: individuals will teach the poem he/she brought in.
Homework: Tenets of Victorian period
Day 2
CP
Homework due: novel essay- g and m error free. Short story draft 1
Activities: read several micro-fiction pieces as examples of varying stylistic choices. Work on 1st draft of story. Peer editing.
Homework: revise draft 1 of story
AP
Homework due: tenets of the Victorian Period.
Activities: finish presenting ind. Romantic pieces. Discuss tenets. Begin Browning.
Homework: Read and analyze Tennyson's "Ulysses"
Day 3
CP
Homework due: 2nd revision of story due
Activities: editing handout. Peer editing.
Homework: finish thier story over the break and work on thier SP essay.
AP
Homework due: read and analyze Tennyson poem if you were unable to do so yesterday
Activities: Discuss tenets. Discuss Tennyson poem. Analyze and discuss Browning poem.
Homework over the break: AP practice book.
Have a great 2 weeks!
Week 29 March 16-19
Day 1
CP
Homework due: SP journal
Activities: finish work with "The Half-Skinned Steer." Discuss. Begin "A Good Man..."
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: analysis of 3 Keats poems for points
Activities: Begin with "La Belle..." Discuss motifs and tenets presented. Move to the two odes. Two class periods will be devoted to these poems.
Homework: "Ode to a Skylark." Read and Analyze
Day 2
CP
Homework due: pts for finished story
Activities: quiz on story. Writing activity: comment on the following- significance of Red Sammy, Grandmother's beliefs, and Misfit's philosophy. What makes a good short story? begin outlining thier own. This will not only be a writing activity, but the base for another oral presentation.
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Read and analyze "Grecian Urn" and Compare with Yeats's "Sailing..." Read and analyze "Skylark." Have pairs present.
Homework: Byron and Shelly poems
Week 28 March 8-12
Day 1
AP
Homework due: multiple choice questions for Ren poem. 5 of them
Activities: Go over practice test done on friday. Have another answer a peer's mc questions.
Homework: practice test section # 3
CP
Homework due: Bring another short story that you like
Activities: Discuss and do a writing activity on TTC. Read another's short story and identify author's tone.
Homework: finish story
Day 2
AP
Homework due: quiz on tenets of Romanticism.
Activities: Finish practice exam and discuss answers. Begin with Blake poems.
Homework:
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: Finish TTC work. Discuss. Begin Proux story. Work with the story they brought.
Homework: none
Day 3
Homework due: finished ind. story analysis
Activities: Read "The Half-Skinned Steer" and work with themes (memory, sexual orientation, journies, mortality, and insanity) setting, flashback, imagery, foreshadowing, and characterization. We will be spending three full class periods on this story. A close read is imperative.
Homework: sp journal for friday
Day 4
CP
Homework due: sp journal
Activities: Work with "Half-Skinned Steer"
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: read selected works of Romantic poets. Colderidge poem and Wordsworth sonnet.
Activities: Continue with the Romantics
HW: Timed practice essay
Week 27 March 1-5
Day 1
CP
homework due: 3 analytical questions about another's story
Activities: read "Gold Coast."
Homework: finish 7 questions
AP
Homework: none
Activities: go over two sets of practice questions and read Herbert's "The Pulley"
Homework: none
Day 2
CP
Homework due: 7 questions from short story
Activities: Discuss the questions from "Gold Coast." Begin the next story: "The Things they Carried."
Homework: finish writing activity in notebooks
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Finish discussing "The Pulley." Work briefly with the Ren. poem they brought. Use MOMENT while analyzing another. compose a couple of strong multiple choice questions for each poem. Characteristic of the Restoration and the 18th Century. Read and analyze Johnson, Pope, and Blake. Go over tenets of Neoclassical period.
Day 3
CP
Homework due: 7 aspects of "goal coast" for pts
Activities: Discuss questions. Read "the things they carried" and discuss the following as we read: parallel structure, transition, tangible vs. intangible, for and function, repetition, characterization, cataloguing, etc.
Homework: vocabulary
AP
Homework due: none
Actvities: finish the Johnson. 3 practice sections of Neoclassic poets. Begin Blake.
Homework: Find the tenets of Romanticism and be prepared to present them to the class.
Week 26 February 22nd- 26th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: typed draft of ind. novel essay
Activities: Begin short story unit. Begin with "Cathedral." Read in class. begin discussion of style and motifs.
Homework: SP editing of goils and essay
AP
Homework due: MOMENT with "To His Coy Mistress."
Activities: discuss homework in relation to the heuristic. Practice test section. Complete and discuss answers.Hand back marked essays.
Homework: revise and type final (3rd draft) Jazz essay. Due in two classes. this will be the final polished essay. The rest will be in class timed practice essays.
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish reading "Cathedral." Discuss in relation to the following: 1. what kind of story is it? (realism, naturalism, fantasy, "sick world," economic extremes) 2. Who is the speaker? 3. What are the facts? 4. What represents something more? 5. Author's purpose 6. Author's views of characters 7. Philosophical questions addressed. Best American Short Stories of the Century- class set
Homework: Bring in a copy of their favorite short story by Wednesday
AP
Homework: none
Activities: was not able to get done with the practice test. Take and discuss the prctice test. Start the second. Go over a couple of the Elements of poetry handouts.
Homework: Typed final of Jazz due tomorrow
Day 3
CP
Homework: none
Activities: Read Gold Coast. Apply 7 elements.
Homework: finish classwork if you were unable to do so. Bring favorite short story next class
AP
Homework due: Jazz essay due
Activities: Poetry practice sections. Go over answers and identify patterns. analyze Herbert's "The Pulley" Generate multiple choice questions in relation to the poem.
Homework: find and bring a Ren. poem that you like. Make sure you more or less know what is going on in the poem
Day 4
CP
Homework due: check for bringing short story
Activities: generate 3 analytical short answer questions relatied to the short story you brought. Read another's story and answer the questions related to it,
homework: none
AP
Homework due: Ren. poem
Activities: In class timed essay (poetry). turn in at the end of the period
Homework: none
Week 24 February 15th-19th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: novel should be finished
Activities: Finish oral presentations
Homework: Choose a topic for their essay and compose an outline
AP
Homework due: Jazz draft #1
Activities: finish the sonnet analysis. Compose a sonnet
Homework: finish sonnet
Day 2
CP
Homework due: Prompt for ind novel study essay
Activities: Make an outline. Begin drafting essay.
Homework: none. The essay will be written in class
AP
Homework due: completed sonnet. Ren. reading
Activities: Discuss tenets of the Ren. Donne's "The Sun Rising," "A Valediction," and "The Flea." Discuss Metaphysical conceit
Homework: revise essays
Day 3
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: Continue working on essays.
Homework: Contact S.P. mentor by Friday
AP
Homework due: revised Jazz essay
Activities: Continue Metaphysical poetry. Move on to Marvell
Homework: read "a passionate Shepherd to His Love" and "The Nymph's Reply"
Day 4
CP
Homework due: rough draft of ind. novel
Activities: Revise and peer edit. Alternation of sentence types, strong word choice, and grammar and mechanics error free.
Homework: final due for Monday- g and m error free
AP
Homework due: quiz on poetic devices examined so far
Activities: quiz. Discuss carpe diem. Apply MOMENT to Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"
Homework:
Week 23 February 9th-12th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: Ind novel work
Activities: Read novels and jot down the events that you read. Turn in. Most of the week will be devoted to reading.
Homework: SP journal due at the end of the week. they must contact their SP mentor before the end of next week Their ind novel is due at the end of the week.
AP
Homework due: chapter 7 and 8 of Jazz for pts
Activities: Discuss their reading responses. Catalogue archetypes Morrison employs in the work and analyze its effect on the work as a whole. Read.
Homework: finish the novel. We will begin an essay next class. Then to poetry and tenets of periods.
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: Examine the following in your novel: 1. Character mnemonics, 2. What is special about who tells the story and why is it told that way. 3. The significance of chapter breaks. 4. Is there Allegory? 5. Specific style? 6. Is there Metafiction? What purpose does it serve? 7. Does the story sound in any way autobiographical? 8. Intertexuality? 9. What kind of philosophy exists in the book? life questions. 10. Is there history in the novel? 11. How closely do you connect with the novel?
Homework: sp journal due this Friday. Contacting SP mentor by next Friday.
AP
Homework due: final reading logs for Jazz
Activities: discuss final two chapters- focus on the narrator's voice in the final. Ending? wrapped up? Begin Essay on the novel.
Homework: compose a draft for Jazz essay
Day 3
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Short explanations of the basic tenets of the Ren period. Explanation of characteristics of the sonnet. Analyze a sonnet. Compose one
Homework: First draft of Jazz essay typed
CP
Homework due: 5 out of ten novel aspects due as well as their SP journal
Activities: oral activity: explain where you are on your senior project thus far. 3 minutes.
Homework: finish your independent novel
Week 22 February 2nd-4th
(short week)
Day 1
CP
Homework due: ind novel progress
Activities: hand back marked SP drafts. 20 minutes of work editing and identifying errors. Salinger story in class. New York Times article about Salinger. Discuss.
Homework: SP journal #5 to be turned in next class
AP
Homework due: Jazz 2-5 for pts. Must have a response for each to recieve full credit.
Activities: Salinger story, discussion, and article. Discuss chapters 2-5 of Jazz. Focus on Garden, youth and old age, pain, memory, violence, racism, orphans, music, 2 Violets, narrative voice, and mothers.
Homework: read chapter 6 of Jazz
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish discussing "A Perfect Day Fo Bananafish." Work on independent novel Motifs and what they signify.
Homework: read independent novel
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: continue discussion of 2-5. Begin chapter 6 as a whole class
Homework: finish chapter 6 (Golden Grey chapter)
Day 3
CP
Homework due: page discussion of motifs in their ind. novel.
Activities: Discussion of yesterday's work. Spend the rest of the period reading.
Homework: Read ind. novel
AP
Homework due: chapter 6 of Jazz
Activities: quiz on chapter 6. Discuss the chapter. Begin cataloguing archetypes so far employed in the novel.
Homework: chapter 7
Week 21 January 18th-22nd
Day 1
CP
Homework due: more of ind. novel read
Activities: writing- character motivation. What are the inner and external motivations driving one or more of the characters in your novel. Turn in at the end of the period.
Homework: read ind. novel
AP
Homework due: rough draft of Death of a Salesman Essay
Activities: Edit and peer edit essays. Myth quiz
Homework: type up polished essay.
Day 2
CP
Homework: Read ind. novel
Activities: Work on S.P. essays. Strong word choice. Originality of voice. Varied sentence types. ETC
Homework: continue ind. novel
AP
Homework due: Death of a Salesman essay
Activities: discuss how each approached the work in their essay. Go and check out Jazz. Introduction to musical terms. Style in relation to music. Note where author's style compliments the music.
Homework: chapter one
Day 3
CP
Homework due: rough draft of S.P. essay
Activities: Work on essay rough drafts
Homework: read ind. novel
AP
Homework due: chapter one of Jazz
Activities: Discuss reading responses. Discuss narrative voice and attitute, mood, musicality, style, and motifs. Begin chapter 2. Respond as you read.
Homework: Read chapters 2-5 and respond over www.
Day 4
CP
Homework due: typed draft of SP essay
Activities: Hand in typed rough draft for pts. Read ind. novel.
Homework: read as much as you can of your ind. novel over WWW
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Read and discuss chapter 2
Homework: read through chapter 5 of Jazz over WWW
Week 20 January11th-15th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: hand back papers. Points for bringing their novels. Read ind. novel.
Homework:Bring evidence of progress on your SP
AP
Homework due: Act 1 of Death of a Salesman (pts)
Activities: discuss first act. Questions? Questions for discussion in relation to motifs, characterization, Family dynamics, identity questions, and style. Find evidence for various elements in the work. Aristotle's Tragedy. On Wednesday we will begin an essay. Read aloud time permitting.
Homework: finish first half of act 2.
Day 2
CP
Homework due: read ind. novel
Activities: Oral component. each student will spek for three minutes about the opening of their ind. novel. Why it appealed to them? What drew them in? Any of the 15 aspects we have focused on. Question and Answer.
Homework: Continue reading novel
AP
Homework due: first half of Act 2
Activities: Discuss the first half of this act. Read aloud and discuss the second part of act 2.
Homework: finish what we were unable to get done today
Day 3
CP
Homework due: read ind. novel
Activities: continue oral presentations
Homework: continue reading
AP
Homework due: finish play
Activities: Dr. Hogan guest lecture on poetry
Homework: study for Greek myth quiz. Draft an essay on Death of a Salesman using the list of open ended prompts (1977-2005... choose a question that relates to the play overall.
Week 18 December 14th-18th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: Exam review
Homework: study for exam
AP
Homework due: collected works #3/finish Portrait
Actiities: Work on collected works #3. Discuss the final sections of Portrait. Quick exam explanation
Homewok: none
The rest of the week there will be exams
Week 17 December 7th-11th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: chapter 10 of Grendel
Activities: Discuss chapter 10. 7 dealy sins throughout work thus far- ire, sloth, greed, lust, gluttony, pride, envy (in class work to be complted in notebook).
Homework: Chapter 11
AP
Homework due: capter 4 of Portrait
Activities: discuss chapter 4- religious piety, part 2-evolution of artistic thought/ change in attitude.
Homework: finish chapter 4
For myth quiz on Friday: Apollo, Delphi, Echo, Narcissus, Sirens
Day 2
CP
Homework due: chapter 11 of Grendel
Activities: Finish 7 deadly sins stuff. Discuss. Questions about chapter 11. Begin final chapter as a whloe class iftime permits.
Homework: Finish chapter 12 and write a response.
AP
Homework due: 3rd part of chapter 4 of Portait
Activities: Examine on the following: motifs, poetic diction, syntax and punctuation, role of women, punctuation, his name, reaction t his friends and the religious figures, soul, epiphany, and the contrast with the first paragraph of next chapter.
Hmework: first two sections of chapter 5
Day 3
CP
Homework due: chapter 12 and response
Activities: Battle with Beowulf. Ambiguity of the end. Written response to the work as a whole.
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: part 1 of ch. 5
Activities: Have individuals lead class discussion of aesthetic theory as well as other aspect of this section- attitude toward university, friends, nationalism, et. tone of the section vs. previous ones. time permitting, begin reading the nxt section.
Homework: fiish the next section and study fo friday's vcab quiz.
Day 4
CP
Begin exam review. Bring notes on Grendel and anything you did with BNW.
AP
Homework due: draft of 4th collcted works piece
Activities: mythology quiz. work on collected works piece.
Homewok: finish Portrait.
Week 16 November 30-December 4th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: chapters 6 and 7 of Grendel
Activities: discuss each of the chapters
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: chapters 1 and 2 of Portrait
Activities: discuss chapters
Homework: none
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: hand back SP journals. Check for Grendel chapter 6 and 7 responses. Rad chapter 8 and respond to specific questions- on board.
HW: finish today's work
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish up discussion of chapter two of Portrait. Give them time to work on three in class.
Homework: finish chapter three.
Day 3
CP
Homework due: wpp typed essay (Dec. 3rd)
Activities: discuss ch. 8- Red horse chapter. Characterizations. Political theory. S.P. goal number three- in class work, time permitting.
Homework: Type in WPP essay
AP
Homework due: Portrait, ch. 3
Activities: discuss the chapter, assigning each kid a topic to explain
Homework: read and respond to ch. 9
Day 4
CP
Homework due: Grendel ch. 9
Activities: Explain Ork's theory of religion. discuss chapter as a whole class. Begin chapter 10.
Homework: finish chapter 10 over the weekend. Respond.
AP
Homework due: study for mythology quiz
Activities: Mythology quiz. Finish Portrait ch. 3. Begin chapter 4
Homework: Read first two sections of chapter 4
Week 15 November 23rd-25th (only 2 days this week due to Thanksgiving)
Day 1
CP
Homework due: SP journal #3
Activities: work in pairs with Ch. 5- Dragon chapter. Discuss if there is time.
Homework: finish chapter 5
AP
Homework due: ch. 1 part 1 of Portrait
Activities: Quick quiz. Discuss ch.1 part 1- motifs/symbols/patterns. Begin second part of chapter 1.
Homework: none
Day 2
CP
Homework due: Grendel chapter 5 and response
Activities: In class timed essay on Truth vs. Majority decision. This will be done in class and then typed into the WPP program on the Tuesday after thanksgiving. Do not lose it.
Homework: Read chapters 6 and 7 of Grendel over the break. You do not have to respond to each. You will do this when you come back.
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: in class timed practice essay (45 minutes). Continue reading and responding to Portrait- chapter 1 part 2.
Homework: Finish chapter 1 and respond. Read and respond to chapter 2. I will check to see that you have done this on the Monday following the break.
Week 14 November 17th-20th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: reading chapter three of grendel
Activities: quiz on chapter three. Whole class discussion of the chapter. Begin chapter 4, time permitting
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: finishing "Cathedral" pts for completion
Activities: Discuss communion and epiphany in "Cathedral". Begin "The Garden Party" aloud stopping to identify patters, motifs, symbols, etc...
Homework: finish story
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: work on chapter 4. Shaper oral activity.
Homework: Type the BNW essay in to wpp.
AP
Homework due: "Garden Party"
Activities: discuss "The Garden Party" give them a copy of Portrait.. and have them begin reading it. SSR
Homework due: first 26 pages of novel
Day 3
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: discuss chapter 4. Oral activity (shaper) 1. explain a major figure/institution that affects or influences you. Why do you believe in this? Why are you doubtful?
Homework: SP journal due (#3) on Monday
AP
Homework due: studying for mythology quiz
Activities: 10 question quiz: 5 mythological characters. Background on Portrait, and stream of consciousness SSR of Portrait
Homework: read through page 27. ch. 1 part 1.
Week 13 November 9th- 14th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish discussing chapter 1. Begin reading chapter 2 and completing their responses.
AP
Homework due: "The Dead" pts
Activities: 20 minutes to finish up practice exam. Discuss "The Dead" or begin going over the answers to the practice exam..
Homework:
Day 2
CP
Homework due: work on BNW essay
Activities: finish chapter 2 of Grendel and the response. Discuss the chapter in relation to characterization, good versus evil, and identity
Homework: finish the chapter and make sure that they do the BNW essay
AP
Homework: make sure to have read "The Dead"
Activities: Go over all of the answers for the multiple choice practice test. Time permitting, begin discussing Joyce work.
Homework: look over the myths: Artemis, Charon, Dionysus, Persephone, Pygmalion
Day 3
CP
Homework due: BNW final- grammer and mechanics error free
Activities: Existentialist handout for 30 minutes. Turn it in. Discuss chapter 2.
Homework:none
AP
Homework due: "Sonny's Blues"
Activities: whole class discussion of "The Dead." Motifs, symbols, and patterns. social, political, and religious implications in the work. Begin "Sonny's Blues" if there is time.
Homework: none
Day 4
CP
Homework due: finish the existentialism handout.
Acitities: Show them how to register for WPP. discuss the handout and their responses. Begin chapter three of Grendel.
Homework: Register for WPP
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Walk them through the WPP registration. Finish discussing "The Dead." Discuss "Sonny's Blues"
Homework: study for the vocabulary quiz. Register for WPP. Read Carver's "Cathedral."
Day 5
CP
Homework due: signing up for WPP
Activities: Chapter thrr of Grendel and the reading response
Homework: finish chapter three and the response
AP
Homework due: register for WPP
Activities: Read "Cathedral" aloud discuss.
Homework: read "A Garden Party"
Week 12 November 2nd-6th
Day 1
CP
Homework Due: Pts for finishing the novel
Activities: Discuss the final chapter of BNW. Short written reflection/ reaction on the end. Whole class discussion. Turn in the novel. SP goal #3. Give them each a copy of Grendel and record numbers. By the middle of the month, they need to have contacted their SP mentor
Homework: Type up BNW essay
AP
Homework Due: "A&P" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" reading and responses
Activities: Discuss both stories in relation to form and function, experience, interpretation, and evaluation, and other questions (in written plans). read "The Cliff" and discuss as a whole class. Identity. Hand Back Papers. "Sonny's Blues" and "Where are you Going, where Have You Been." are the next two. We will do a Timed Multiple choice test this week.
Homework: "Where are you going, where have you been" Oates
Day 2
CP
Homework due: typed BNW essay
Activities: Read Chapter 1 of Grendel. Have them keep a reading log for each chapter. each will contain questions, favorite quotation explained, favorite idea, vocabulary, and a list of the main ideas (summary), a couple of themes, a couple of literary devices(quoted).
Homework: contact yuor mentor teacher by next friday. All you need to do is introduce yourself, your project, ask for any ideas they may have, and get a quick note with a signature from them.
AP
Homework due: "Where Are You Going, where Have You Been"
Activities: pts for homework- possible quiz. Read and Discuss "The Cliff." Multiple choice practice test.
Homework: Read Joyce's "The Dead" in the big black book
Day 3
CP
Homework due: work from Grendel chapter 1
Activities: have several volunteers explain their responses. whole class discussion, but directed at a couple of people who wish to defend their point. I will quickly explain a few of the finer points and dificult concepts. Explain Existentialism (handout). Give notes about the Heroic ideal and zodiac signs as well as the planets.
Homework: chapter 2 and a response
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Multiple choice practice test
Homework: read Joyce's "The Dead"
Week of August 17th
aug. 18
C.P.
Homework Due: s.p. proposals and article summaries
Activities: review course outline, materials and website. Discuss the proposals and summaries. Read non-fiction article and discuss author's purpose, tone and form and function. Do the same with the visual piece. Writing assignment- draft a short piece with a focus on tone.
Hw: finish tone draft and type for next class.
A.P.
Homework due: Kafka work.
Activities: review course outline, materials and website. Each presents one of his/her analysis. Whole class discussion. Analyze and discuss The Metamorphosis. Form and Function explanation/review and application to the work. Begin work on Prologue: The Forest. Hand out AP contract.
Hw: Finish Prologue: The Forest and write a one page analysis of the work with a focus on form and function- consider tone in relation to word choice. Bring AP contract signed.
Aug. 19th
A.P.
Homework due: AP contract for points. Analysis of yesterday's reading.
Activities: whole class discussion of Prologue. Read The Garden Party and analyze in relation to motifs and archetypes. I will give you examples of each. Class discussion.
Hw:
C.P.
Homework due: finish making corrections to summer assignments (if you got them back today)
Aug 20th
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: bookstore for Lit book and Grendel. Begin Grendel in class. read and discuss the first chapter.
Homework: read pages 2153-2193 in big black text. Billy the Kid work.
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish the Prologue and discuss using 15 traits of reading (from yesterday). hand back summer assignments and have them rewrite one in class. Turn in toward the end of the hour. Explain the personal essay (as the first major writing assignment as well as oral component). give them the list of possible prompts and the common application. explain that the end result will be acceptance= 100/ rejection=0.
Homework: none
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Week 2 August 24-28th
Day 1
CP English
due: none
Activities: explain college admissions (mock) essays and requirements. Give handouts of sample creative topics. Begin working on drafting their own.
Homework: 500 word rough draft of personal essay
Homework
AP English
Homework due: Billy the Kid summer work. Critical analysis reading (40 pages)
Activities: quiz on the reading. Discuss the schools of lit criticism and how they apply to both the quiz and to the reading.
Homework: read ch. 2 of Grendel
Day 2
CP English
Homework due: 500 word rough draft of personal essay
Activities: work on essay as a whole class.
-strong word choice
-sentence variation
-grammar and mechanics (self and peer)
-transition
-overall content
-same tense
-etc
Homework: final draft due on friday
AP English
Homework Due: chapter 2 of Grendel
Activities: hand back and discuss quizzes. discuss chapter 2 of grendel. Go over the twelve values that Gardnel employs (notes). Discuss in relation to the first 2 chapters. Implications on the rest of the work? How could Grendel be a picaresque hero?- essential question for the next few chapters. Nature of good and evil questions... how do they apply thus far?... especially with narrative voice. Read chater three as a class.
HW: chapter 3
Day 3
CP
homework due: 2nd draft of college essay
Activities: 2 minute oral presentation with whole class evaluation and feedback. Tell class about upcoming film unit and how it will look.
homework: none
AP
Homework due: chapter 3 reading response for pts.
Activities: discuss chapter three. 12 values according to Gardner (western civ.) and explain them. form and fuction activity. each student will have a different task and then discuss with the class. begin chapter 4
Homework: finish chapter 4 and respond (they will have to respond to each reading throughout the year. I will check for pts at ramdom each week)
Week 3- 8/31/09
Day 1
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: return mock college essays. discuss and give due date (friday 4th). Film unit intro: Millions. Take notes on the film while viewing. Topics for reflection will be the theme of Greed in relation to rligion, innocence vs. experience, illusion vs. reality, happiness, and right vs. wrong OR director's choice with scenes, cinemotography (camera angles), vivid use of color, music, etc., and how that effects the overall effect of the film.
Homework: have your notes with you so that you can add to them for the rest of the film
AP
Homework due: chapter 5 journal.
Activities: discuss chapter 5 and the philosophy of the dragon. Nihilism and relation to the novel. Begin a draft of their first essay- morally ambiguous character. Have them read Killings from the big black book to support what they argue.
HW: Dubois Killings and chapter 6 of Grendel
Day 2
CP
Homework due: college essays for revision
Activites: finish film and notes.
homework: polish up notes
AP
Homework due: journal on Killings
Activities: discuss Killings. Discuss chapter 6 of Grendel. Finish the draft of Grendel as a morally ambiguous character.
Homework: Chapter 7 of Grendel
Day 3
CP
Homework Due: notes on film and college essay
Activities: draft essay and peer edit
Homework: typed film draft
AP
Homework Due: chapter 7 journal
Activities: discuss chapter 7 of Grendel. 45 minute timed essay on morally ambiguous characters. After their essay, they must edit and include the following: Parallel construction, a question, at least two simple sentences, a fragment, an infinitive phrase, a gerund phrase, dependent clause, independent clause, and a deliberate fragment.
Homework: type up the essay for monday and read chapter 8.
Week 4 9/7/09- 9/11/09
Day 1
CP
homework due: film critique rough draft
Activities: self and peer editing. get vocab
homework: type up the edited draft. work on college essay second try
AP
homework due: Grendel essay draft
Activities: discuss chapter 8. edit essays. get vocab
Homework: read chapter 9
Day 2
CP
homework due: typed draft of film critique
activities: view film and take notes
homework: none
AP
homework due: chapter 9 journal entry
activities: discuss chapter 9. have them continue editing their essays. read chapter 10 aloud
homework: finish chapter 10
Day 3
CP
Homework due: confirmation that they spoke with their folks about their SP
Activities: finish film and notes. air them up and begin the 1 minute oral activity
Homework: mock college essay
AP
Homework due: chapter 9 of Grendel
Activities: discuss the chapter (10). Turn back essays and have them work on them in class. Begin chapter 10
Homework: finish chapter 10 and type up the final of Grendel draft
Day 4
CP
Homework due: organize questions to ask those during their 2 minute oral component
Activities: oral component. Question and answer.
homework: none
AP
Homework due: chapter 10. Final Grendel paper due
Activities: Discuss chapter 10. Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and discuss as we go as a whole class. form and function.
Homework: finish the novel (chapters 11 and 12)
Week of 9/13/09- 9/16/09
Day 1
CP
Homework due: SP journal #1. Mock college essays.
Activities: Finish the 2 minute oral presentation (filmed). Show them a few clips- from last year as well as the ones they just completed. Critique them using the rubrics.
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: finish "a Good Man is Hard to Find." Finish Grendel. Journal entry on one or both of them.
Activities: Discuss the end of the O'Conner Story. focus on motifs and archetypes and how each/all play a role in the author's purpose and the overall effect of the work. Finish discussing Grendel. Discuss their journals. Have them go and check out Heart of Darkness for Tuesday.
Homework: Read the first section of HOD
Day 2
CP
Homework Due: Journal for S.P. for their binders.
Activities: Give them the themes and quotation handout. From it they may choose a topic for their one page reflection of the film. Work on it in class. Variation of sentence types and strong word choice.
Homework: type a rough draft
AP
Homework due: bring The collected Works of Billy the Kid
Activities: Give notes on Billy the kid. Narration going its own way. Have each choose their three favorite scenes/pages from the novel. they will discuss the form, function, and purpose for each. they may use their summer assignment notes for this, but must return them. We will begin discussing them as a class.
Homework: finish today's assignment if they were not able to do so.
Day 3
CP
Homework due: typed rough copy of 2nd film critique
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Read the Tenenbaums article and respond to it: identify thesis, summarize the argument (strongest and weakest points), and give your opinion of it. Agree or disagree.
homework: none
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Read and discuss the Flannery O'conner article from the Atlantic. Continue with The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Use their papers from the summer assignments as springboards. Edit them for both style and content. Give them Heart of Darkness. Begin reading if there is time.
homework: take home and revise their summer Billy the Kid essays for revision.
Week 6 9/21-9/25
Day 1
CP
Homework due: aldaily article summary due. Film critique
Activities: hand back edited essays and film critique article. Begin viewing 3rd and final fil. Give them the technical terms handout to aid them in note taking during the viewing. 3 handouts total.
Homework: organize notes.
AP
Homework due: revised Billy the Kid analysis. Check to see if they read the O'conner and Kafka articles for pts.
Activities: Discuss the articles. Take up the essays. Begin HOD aloud in class. 15 minute reflection on style and setting as well as narrative point of view. SSR. 85 minute classes.
Homework: finish the first part of HOD
Day 2
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: finish film. Go over all of the cinematography terms. Choose a topic about which to reflect. They will plan for 30 minutes (like the ERB) using one of the prompts on the second page of the handout. Next class they will have a timed in-class essay and may use their notes. Graded and scored using the ERB rubric.
Homework: they may do any prep work they want, but may not bring anything to class for the timed essay.
AP
Homework due: finish reading part 1 of HOD
Activities: whole class questions and discussion about the chapter. Share journals. Hand back essays on Billy the Kid. Everyone choose one archetype or motif and describe it with textual evidence. Share it- all of the possible meanings. SSR for the rest of the period.
Homework: finish the second part of HOD
Day 3
CP
Homework due: none
Activities: 60 minute writing response to the film. They may use only their pre writing and the ideas they bring. 5 minute break. Graded using the ERB rubric. Give them a copy of BNW and have them read the first chapter. They will keep a brief writing response for each chapter.
Hw: finish chapter 1 of BNW
AP
Homework due: check for part 2 of HOD
Activities: Vocabulary quiz. Open class discussion of part two. Motifs and archetypes. Questions for discussion (in notebooks).
HW: finish the novel.
Week 7 9/28-10/1
Day 1
CP
Homework: study for the vocabulary quiz
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Hand back all papers. Remember those 15 points when reading the opening of a novel or a story? Apply them to the first few pages of BNW. Discuss them if there is time.
Hw: finish the 15 points
AP
Homework due: part 3 of HOD
Activities: in class writing on free response question using HOD.
Homework: read "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
Day 2
CP
Homework due: chapter 1 of BNW
Activities: discuss the elements they found on the first couple of pages. Discuss the first chapter. Give them Article on Utopia/dystopia. Read article. Discuss. Begin reading chapter 2.
Homework: finish chapter 2
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: Discuss part 3 of HOD. Discuss in class timed essays. Begin reading "The short Happy Life..." Discuss Hemingway's style.
Homework: Finish story. Return HOD
Day 3
CP
Homework due: ch. 2 and 3 of BNW
Activities: quick quiz (15 minutes). Discuss as a whole class. Read chapter 4
Homework: Finish chapter 4 for homework and do a senior project journal for Friday
AP
Homework due: "Short Happy Life..."
Activities: Discuss Hem. story. Read "Barn Burning" as a class. Compare the styles- syntax and diction. At least 5 sentence comparisons from each story. Discuss with the class.
Homework: Read first chapter in The Things They Carried (new unit)
Day 4
AP
Homework due: journal of chapter one of TTC
Activities: Discuss story. Binaries and strands in the first story. Essential questions as related to the opening. Why does O'Brien open the novel with this story? Begin second story as a class.
Homework: Read first story
Week 8 10/5-10/9
Day 1
CP
Homework due: chapter 4 BNW
Activities: discuss ch. 4. SSR of ch. 5 while I check SP journal #2
Homework: finish questions and chapter 5
Day 2
CP
Homework due: questions and chapter 5
Activities: discuss questions. Discuss chapter 5. Begin working on the first goal of their SP. Strong word choice, vary sentence types, and grammar and mechanics focus.
Homework: finish first goal
AP
Homework due: Discuss first story of TTC. Binaries and strands. Style. Form and function. read second story aloud. Why would this story be first? What is the overall effect? Discuss each of the essential questions. We will choose one of the passages from the third story for a timed essay next class. Author's tone in relation to literary techniques on page 37.
HW: Read the third chapter.
Day 3
CP
Homework due: typed sp goal #1 and chapter 6 of BNW
Activities: Quick quiz on chapter 6. Discuss the chapter. Edit their SP preliminary journal #1. explain to the class how they plan on accomplishing thier goal. Another person will explain a peer's work.
Project
Thesis (goal)
Steps to accomplishment of the goal
Try and find an article on governmental control.
AP
Homework Due: "Spin"
Activities: Timed in class essay on the passage in "Spin". Whole class evaluation of the work using the generic rubric. Begin reading "On the Rainy River."
HW: finish story
Day 4
CP
Homework due: chapter 7
Activities: Discuss chapter 7. SSR of chapter 8.
Homework: finish chapter 8 and read chapter 9 over the long break. Oral component on tuesday.
AP
Homework due: finished "On the Rainy River"
Activities: one class is behind and needs to do the timed essay (period 2). passage form "How To Tell A True War Story."
Period six will peer grade one another's timed essays. Discuss. Discuss "On the Rainy River" Time permitting, they may start their Homework.
Homework: Read "How To Tell A True War Story" and a journal.
Week 9 10/13-10/16
Day 1
CP
Homework due: chapters 8 and 9 of BNW
Activities: quiz on 8 and 9. Discuss chapters. Write SP intro and edit. 100-200 words
HW: type SP goal
AP
Homework due: "Friends," "Enemies," and "How to Tell a True War Story."
Activities: Timed in class essay for 2nd period. Peer grade. Discuss stories as a whole class. 6th period: peer grade essays. Discuss stories.
Homework: Read "The Man I Killed"
Day 2
CP
Homework due: chapter 10
Activities: Discuss chapter 10. Choose a quotation from the 100 Huxley quotations. Plan for a 3 minute oral presentation. Explain the quotation, its relation to BNW if relevant, and on a broader scale. 15 minutes to draw up an outline and think out a strategy for the presentation.
Homework: chapter 11 of BNW
AP
Homework due:"The Dentist" and "Sweetheart..."
Activities: Discuss the above 2 stories. Compose a list of strong descriptive and analytical words in notebooks to start using on in class essays. Turn back essays. Take individual sentences and rewrite them using stronger word choice and varied syntax. Share with class. SSR of next couple of stories
HW:
Day 4
CP
Homework due: study for vocab quiz
Activities: Vocabulary quiz. Continue oral presentation #3.
Homework: read chapters 11 and 12
AP
Homework due: study for vocabulary quiz
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Strengthen essays with wordlists given on thursday.
Homework: type up revised essays
Week 10 10/19-10/23
Day 1
CP
Homework due: read 11 and 12. Check for pts.
Activities: Finish filming. Just a few to go. Whole class discussion of chapters 10-12. Written exercise: short foreshadowing explanation.
HW: read chapter 13
AP
Homework due: turn in essays
Activities: Discuss three stories as a whole class. Choose best sentences for each and be prepared to explain why. Discuss. Begin "Ambush" aloud.
Homework: read the next story
Day 2
CP
Homework: Chapter 13
Activities: Discussion of chapter 13. Short foreshadowing activity (was not able to get it done on Mon.: Texual hints as to what will become of each character written on the board. Turn in. SSR of chapter 14.
Homework: finish chapter 14
AP
Homework due: TTC essay
Activities: Discuss Ambush, Style, and Speaking of Courage, apply the identity questions and figure out the title of the last two. With the last one have them try and figure out what is going on stylistically and why this story is so drastically different from the others so far. Why is O'Brien telling the story from Bowker's point of view? discuss. Then read "Notes" as a whole class.
homework: Finish Notes and read In the Field and Good Form.
Day 3
CP
Homework due: chapters 14 and 15 of BNW
Activities: Discuss the two chapters- answer any questions as a whole class. Write SP goal 2. Edit. Alternate sentence types (use the handouts for help determining the three basic types). On the back, list the adjectives and adverbs used.
Homework: typed goal #2 for next class
AP
Homework due: In the Field and Good Form
Activities: Hand back the essays. 45 minutes pair work- work with awk/wordy/? sentences and usage problems on another sheet of paper. Turn it in. Discuss In the Field and Good Form. Apply Identity quesitons. Truth vs. Illusion... and the truth about the novel. Fiction or non-fiction? Where are the clues?
Homework: read Field Trip and Ghost Soldiers
Week 11 October 26th-30th
Day 1
CP
Homework due: Typed SP goal # 2
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Read chapter 16 as a whole class and discuss.
Homework: read chapter 17
AP
Homework Due: Field Trip and Ghost Soldiers. Brining collected works piece #1
Activities: vocabulary quiz. Work on the first collected works piece, both the form and the function.
Homework: finish the novel.
Day 2
CP
Homework due: ch. 16 and 17 of BNW
Activities: explain writing task- choose one concept Mustapha Mond explains and elaborate on it, not only in the novel, but in regard to human nature. Begin writing. Strong word choice, and sentence variation.
Homework: none
AP
Homework due: last two stories of the novel finished (for pts with reading log).
Activities: discuss the last 4 chapters of the novel. Timed essay. Identity prompt.
Homework: none
Day 3
CP
Homework due: rough draft of Mond's social, religious, or philosophical ideas.
Activities: start with another sheet of paper and edit sentence by sentence- sentence type variation, grammar and mechanics, strong adjectives and adverbs.
Homework: type draft for next class and I will check it using the "x" system.
AP
Homework due: none
Activities: discuss last chapters of the novel. Go to the bookstore and return books. Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Gillman. Apply Identity questions. Whole class reading and discussion of style and purpose.
Homework: Read "A&P" by Updike
Week 12- at the top of this page